With Friday being the anniversary of the LeBron decision, it got me to thinking. What if Peyton Manning makes the same decision come the end of this lockout? What if for some crazy reason the franchise tag is not valid? What if Peyton decides to take his talents somewhere else? Does that not just make you shudder as a Colts fan? Me too!

Lets try to set up a scenario where the parallels are so closely related, that we as Colts fans can relate with the fans of Cleveland. This might be tough to do because Manning is not a diva, Manning is not going to leave Indianapolis, and Manning is not going to team up with Wes Welker, or Antonio Gates, or Adrian Peterson. Just turn on your imagination to do this.

Lets imagine that in the playoff loss to the Jets, with the last 10 minutes of the game, Manning doesn’t try very hard. Let’s just imagine that he…